Mr Ren suggests fostering a group of "thought leaders" to "occupy" new media.This suggestion exposes an inherent weakness in all such government strategy.
It fosters a group of information providers who can access, collate, interpret and disseminate information as needed within a known and regularly used framework.
This is not Libin's first attempt to foster a group of AI startups: last year, after he parted ways with Evernote, Libin joined General Catalyst and kicked off a new project there to find, fund and grow startups building bots — tools that chatted with you, a human, using conversational artificial intelligence, to help you find information, solve a problem, order a sofa, and much more.
At the end of each session, participants interacted during a snack break which fostered a sense of group cohesion.
Those methods took root on college campuses in the latter half of George W. Bush's presidency, fostered by a group of men and women in their late teens and early 20s with a taste for showmanship and a shared sense of political alienation — a sort of political reverse image of the left-wing Yippies of the 1960s.
This sense of connectedness is fostered when a group of students have similar ambitions and work together to attain their goals.
"The sharing, discussion and experimentation I've seen in the Facebook group has fostered a deeper understanding and appreciation of that era than some other online subcultures, which sometimes get stuck on a few highly circulated memes and entertaining novelties," Collins says.
The continued focus on the ABC hypothesis by anti-abortion groups has fostered a confrontational political environment.
It then makes them more likely to stick to those beliefs and shun those who don't agree, all in the evolutionary pursuit of fostering an in-group of companions who will stick together, protect each other and love each other.
